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National Trust rangers counted at least 126 pairs of little terns at Long Nanny, Northumberland, in 2026. That is more than double the site's previous record of 57 pairs, set in 1994. The wider picture was mixed: Arctic terns on the Farne Islands fell by 27%.
An RSPCA animal rescue officer cut a badger free from football netting at a school in Swanwick, Derbyshire. Vets at the RSPCA's Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre treated its swollen leg and rope burns, and the badger has been released back into the wild.
A paper in the New Zealand Journal of Zoology documents the recovery of wētāpunga, New Zealand's heaviest insect. Zoos bred tens of thousands, and 11,000 were released to 10 new wild sites in 45 translocations. The species' threat status has improved from Nationally Endangered to Nationally Increasing.
World Animal Rescue Network has opened an appeal to support wildlife-related fire response, recovery and prevention in Kalimantan. Its September 8 update says staff are assessing needs in Indonesia, with grant recipients still to be selected.
Malaysia released 400 young river terrapins into the Terengganu River on September 7. Bernama reported that the wildlife department, Perhilitan, organised the conservation release near Kuala Berang.
New Zealand’s official kākāpō population reached 325 after 90 young birds joined the count on September 1. The Department of Conservation says the youngest surviving chick had reached the 150-day counting milestone.
Fisherfolk in Cagwait, Surigao del Sur, built a mangrove and seagrass monitoring kit that is now exhibited at the National Geographic Museum of Exploration. MindaNews reported the kit sits alongside field tools from other explorers in the Washington museum that opened in June 2026.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto issued Presidential Instruction No. 8/2026, directing eight ministries, the national police, and regional governments to protect 5.4 million hectares of Sumatran elephant habitat and 19,141 hectares of Bornean elephant habitat, ANTARA News reported. The decree bans new permits in elephant habitat and requires wildlife corridors wherever infrastructure projects would otherwise cut through elephant home ranges.
RSPB Cymru announced on 8 July 2026 that it had bought the 96-hectare Gallt-y-bere site, reconnecting its fragmented Gwenffrwd-Dinas reserve in mid Wales for the first time in almost 60 years. The purchase was confirmed by RSPB Cymru and reported by ITV News Wales and Nation.Cymru.
The UK government announced a record £90 million investment on 8 July 2026 to fund 130 projects protecting 364 threatened species across England, under the 'Wild Again' species recovery campaign. Defra reported the funding builds on three decades of work that has already helped protect more than 1,000 species and prevented at least 35 national extinctions.
Hanoi began enforcing its first low-emission zone on 1 July 2026, barring petrol motorbikes from 11 Old Quarter streets from 6pm to midnight on Fridays and 6am to midnight on Saturdays and Sundays. The pilot covers about 20,000 residents in Hoan Kiem ward and is the opening phase of a rollout set to cover all of Ring Road 1 by 2029.
Three Kalimantan orangutans named Bagus, Eboni, and Ruby were released into Gunung Batu Mesangat protected forest on June 23, 2026 after rehabilitation at BORA. The Jakarta Post reported the joint release by East Kalimantan wildlife agencies, forest units, and the Center for Orangutan Protection.
Sarawak will host the third Rainforest Youth Summit from June 24 to 26, 2026 in Kuching, then the 29th Rainforest World Music Festival. The Jakarta Post reported speakers from Malaysia, Indonesia, Kenya, and Fiji and two new youth climate programmes.
Hanoi launched 'RE:EARTH – For a Green West Lake' on 20 June 2026, mobilising around 250 delegates and more than 150 volunteers to clean up plastic waste around the lake. The programme was organised by Agriculture and Environment Newspaper, WWF and Lotte Mart Korea, with Vietnam's Environment Department and Tây Hồ Ward's People's Committee taking part.
Jakarta's 'Plant Raya Together' urban farming movement brought together 562 farmers across 5 administrative city areas in 2026, coordinated by the DKI Jakarta Provincial PKK Movement Team, the Food, Maritime and Agriculture Directorate, and the Environment Service. Each area planted a different flagship crop in a staged rollout running from February to June 2026.
Drone footage from 10 June 2026 showed about 5,000 young flamingos at Lake Tuz in central Türkiye, protected by their parents. In 2021 the salt lake nearly dried up and thousands of greater flamingo hatchlings died. A water project now pumps water into the nesting areas.
Mountain gorilla populations across the Virunga Massif and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park have grown from fewer than 300 individuals in the 1980s to roughly 1,063 confirmed by the most recent comprehensive census, with monitoring suggesting continued growth toward 1,100. The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund reports mountain gorillas are the only great ape subspecies with a growing wild population, credited to sustained anti-poaching work, habitat protection, and tourism revenue that funds conservation.
University of Canterbury research studied pollinators at 14 community gardens across Christchurch, finding that garden size and plant diversity directly affect which bees and flies visit and stay. Farmers Weekly NZ reported the study adds to evidence that city gardens can be part of the solution to declining pollinator populations, alongside the rediscovery of a bee species in Christchurch after 65 years.
Conservation takes many forms: protecting habitat, caring for wildlife and changing how energy is produced. We explain what the reported figures measure, including the difference between a release, a population count and lasting recovery.